NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The ppi driver provides a convenient means for user applications to
manipulate the state of the parallel port, enabling easy low-speed I/O
operations without the security problems inherent with the use of the
/dev/io interface.

PROGRAMMINGINTERFACE

All I/O on the ppi interface is performed using ioctl() calls. Each
command takes a single u_int8_t argument, transferring one byte of data.
The following commands are available:
PPIGDATA, PPISDATA
Get and set the contents of the data register.
PPIGSTATUS, PPISSTATUS
Get and set the contents of the status register.
PPIGCTRL, PPISCTRL
Get and set the contents of the control register. The following
defines correspond to bits in this register. Setting a bit in
the control register drives the corresponding output low.
STROBE
AUTOFEED
nINIT
SELECTIN
PCD
PPIGEPP, PPISEPP
Get and set the contents of the EPP control register.
PPIGECR, PPISECR
Get and set the contents of the ECP control register.
PPIGFIFO, PPISFIFO
Read and write the ECP FIFO (8-bit operations only).

BUGS

The inverse sense of signals is confusing.
The ioctl() interface is slow, and there is no way (yet) to chain
multiple operations together.
The headers required for user applications are not installed as part of
the standard system.